[vtk-developers] Building VTK Master (8.90)

[Dan Lipsa]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 1:23 AM Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In summary, I get a build on Ubuntu 18.10 with just the defaults and these
> changes:
> VTK_ENABLE_GROUP_QT->WANT
> VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_RenderingFreeType DEFAULT->NO
> VTK_WRAP_PYTHON on
> VTK_PYTHON_VERSION 3
> VTK_SMP_IMPLEMENTATION_TYPE TBB
>
> In VTK/lib there is a python2.7 folder. Given that I built for Python
> 3.7.1, is this folder name correct?
>

I've seen the same behavior. For some reason
PYTHON_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH
points to the python2 executable instead of python3.
A workaround is to change it to point to the correct python and that fixes
the problem.
I have not looked into why the variable is set this way.

Dan


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